KinKi Kids 記念すべき40枚目のシングルとなる今作は、久保田利伸氏書き下ろしによるミディアムバラード。昨年リリースの「The Red Light」が久保田利伸ワールド全開のHard Soulであったのと対照的に、この「会いたい、会いたい、会えない。」は、久保田利伸×KinKi Kids、お互いの世界観が見事に融合したシンプルでストレートなバラード楽曲。切なさの中にも前向きな力強さを感じさせる珠玉のラブソングとして完成! Bijoude TV-CFソングに決定。 通常盤のみ「Give me your love」「名もなき未来」収録。3面6Pジャケット仕様。

KinKi Kids 記念すべき40枚目のシングルとなる今作は、久保田利伸氏書き下ろしによるミディアムバラード。昨年リリースの「The Red Light」が久保田利伸ワールド全開のHard Soulであったのと対照的に、この「会いたい、会いたい、会えない。」は、久保田利伸×KinKi Kids、お互いの世界観が見事に融合したシンプルでストレートなバラード楽曲。切なさの中にも前向きな力強さを感じさせる珠玉のラブソングとして完成! Bijoude TV-CFソングに決定。 初回盤AのDVDには、「会いたい、会いたい、会えない。」Music Clipを収録。3面6Pジャケット仕様。

KinKi Kids 記念すべき40枚目のシングルとなる今作は、久保田利伸氏書き下ろしによるミディアムバラード。昨年リリースの「The Red Light」が久保田利伸ワールド全開のHard Soulであったのと対照的に、この「会いたい、会いたい、会えない。」は、久保田利伸×KinKi Kids、お互いの世界観が見事に融合したシンプルでストレートなバラード楽曲。切なさの中にも前向きな力強さを感じさせる珠玉のラブソングとして完成! Bijoude TV-CFソングに決定。 初回盤BのDVDには、「会いたい、会いたい、会えない。」Live Music Clipを収録。初回盤Bのみ「SNOW TEARS」収録。2面4Pジャケット仕様。

The sleeve tells you so much about the process. It's a picture of a lone figure. Suited up and immersed in interplanetary protective gear, he walks out across unmapped terrain. In the distance, a mountain range towers over the roughly gridded sand he's striding. This is very much a solo mission - giant steps into the unknown. Inside the helmet, there's all the uncertainty and madness that such a pursuit brings. That sleeve (designed, as ever, with Mark Farrow), comes wrapped around And Nothing Hurt - Spiritualized's eighth album, the follow up to 2012's Sweet Heart, Sweet Light. From the opening lullaby of A Perfect Miracle through to the fading Morse Code at the close of Sail on Through, it painstakingly wraps layer upon layer of gloriously transcendent sound together to create a mesmerizing and cinematic collection of songs. There are points - the thunderous climax of On the Sunshine; the spectral waltz of The Prize; the towering guitar solo on I'm Your Man - where the waves of blissful noise are almost overwhelming, where one can imagine the studio's speakers vibrating themselves off of the walls. Which is an incredible feat when you discover that the album was conceived and recorded almost entirely by one man - Jason Pierce, AKA J.Spaceman - in an upstairs room in his east London home. Sat in an edit suite in Whitechapel a month or so after finishing recording, Jason talks honestly about the painstaking, frustrating process of creating And Nothing Hurt. "Making this record on my own sent me more mad than anything I've done before. We'd been playing these big shows and I really wanted to capture that sound we were making but, without the funds to do, I had to find a way to work within the constraints of what money I had. So I bought a laptop and made it all in a little room in my house." Whereas bedroom recording is commonplace for a generation of musicians who've grown up with horizon-expanding tech, Spiritualized have long used the studio as they would an extra member of the band - as a vital building block in the construction of some of the most cherished records of the modern era. This time would be very different. With no grounding in digital recording, Jason had to learn everything from scratch. "The biggest thing for me was to try to make it sound like a studio session. There are bits that I went to a studio to record - mainly drums and percussion. I mean, there's no way I'm going to get timpani up my stairs. When I came to terms with how I was going to make the record, I assumed it was going to sound like Lee Perry - all flying in from different angles; all extraordinary and not hi-tech in construction. But I was new to it all, I didn't have all the short cuts people use when they're making records - I just sat there for weeks… for months… moving every level up bit by bit just to try to get the sounds right." For the listener, the nine tracks on And Nothing Hurt effortlessly replicate the scale and power of Spiritualized's previous releases, whether it's the sonic blowback of On the Sunshine, the last dime in the jukebox love letter of Let's Dance or the swell of an imaginary orchestra that seems to lift Damaged towards the heavens as it plays out.